*Disclaimer: We are concerned residents who live on McKinnon Road and we have set up this website to facilitate a more simple process to object. Please note that your email address and personal details you send to savemckinnonvillage (at) gmail.com will be kept strictly confidential and we will not use it, sell it or provide it to third parties. You will only be contacted if there are issues with your emailed objections sent to council. We only ask that you copy us into your objection email so that we have a record sent to the City of Glen Eira *in case*.

McKinnon is a village whose character is rapidly being destroyed by ever increasing high density development. The site is zoned General Residential Schedule 1 - such intensive development is inappropriate for the village area, and will create further visual bulk and overshadowing.

There are already a number of very visually unattractive buildings with insufficient amenities located in the village centre area which is giving the area a cheap & messy appearance (i.e. no outdoor areas which are resulting in apartment residents hanging laundry and storing cleaning items like buckets & mops on street facing balconies).

On-site parking limitations and laneway access, and parking implicationsMcKinnon Road is not a “major” road as suggested in the planning application and any large development will cause traffic congestion and further parking difficulties for residents parking in nearby residential streets. The traffic survey conducted does not take into account the new developments currently being constructed on McKinnon Road within 200 metres of this site which will also increase traffic congestion and the need for parking spaces. Therefore, a permit requesting a reduction in car parking spaces is totally inappropriate – the required number of suitable parking spaces must be provided for any development on the site. The parking garage access is proposed via a very narrow rear single laneway which exits on one end at Wheatley Road on a blind exit near a roundabout, and at the other on Nicholson Street near the corner with McKinnon Road – the additional traffic created by this proposed development has the potential to cause many traffic accidents.​General:This application also breaches a number of clauses – a few examples below:55.03-3 Site Coverage states the site area should not exceed 60%; site coverage proposed is 67.6% - a non-compliance of 12.66%55.05-4 Balcony size requirement is for at last 8m / this development will have some with 7.11m – a non-compliance of 12.5%

I therefore request that council reassess the proposal and I also wish to be advised of any consultation meetings.

Yours sincerely

[insert your name]

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